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Re: Turbine eating in the air.
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Originally Posted by ilovemysnake
Even if I do try to feed in the enclosure, all she does is tunnel. She doesnt come out to eat. I tried before with the repti carpet, she wouldnt come out of the hide.
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It was the same way with my ball python. I put the hot end of the rat actually inside the hide, and he's been taking it every time. I'm not sure if a hot spot is important for colubrids, but you could try sticking it at the hide's entrance nonetheless.
As far as the impaction, I fed Bud in his enclosure once with the bedding in at one point and he got a lot of it in his mouth. He missed the rat (this is when I fed live) and got his mouth just filled with substrate. It took him several minutes to get his mouth clear, and I was so worried he was going to die or something from eating all of that EcoEarth because it expands. Luckily, he was perfectly fine and passed some urates with no problems the next day, but the vet was close by if anything went wrong. This wasn't the summer that just ended, but the one before it. I'm sure it will be fine feeding in the enclosure if you have the proper husbandry. Snakes are a bit hardier than you think. Of course, ingesting as much as Bud did every feeding wouldn't be too good, but just eating they normally don't ingest all that much bedding.
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